ABSTRACT
At the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June of 1992, various countries presented their plans for sustainable development, and most of these plans had energy sustainability as the nucleus of other activities. Definitions of sustainable development depend upon the subject matter, but the definition we will use here is “development by using renewable natural resources in a manner that does not eliminate or degrade them or otherwise diminish their ‘renewable’ usefulness for future generations…” (Karamouz, 1993).
